Telephone cover



Nov. 6 11923.

- M. R. FOSTER TELEPHONE covE'R Filed July 29 1921 Mil P05 277 I N VENTOR.

ATTORNEY;

Patented Nov. t3, 1%23.

elector-e,

MARY ROBERTS FOSTER, 015 WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

TELEPHONE COVER,

Application filed July 29,

To all whom 27; may concern:

Be it known that I, Mair-r Ronnnrs Fos- TER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Covers, ofwhich the following isa specification.

This invention appertains to a certain novel form of telephone cover,andha-s for its principal object to provide a type of the same in thenature of a dress adapted to enclose and otherwise cover up practicallyall of the exposed parts of a telephone, :referably a telephone of thedesk or portable type, and in a manner to render the same ornamentallyattractive and vpleasing to the eye, but without detracting from thegeneral utility of the telephone, or otherwise rendering the sameinconvenient or annoying in use.

Another object of the invention to provide for a cover of the classmentioned, and one which may be readily and quickly applied to atelephone after the manner of a slip-on dress or cover, and secured, inposition thereon for use until soiled or otherwise unfit for furtheruse, when the same can be removed with equal facility forcleaningpurposes or for the substitution of another therefor.

A further object of the invention ,is to providefor a cover or dress ascharacter ized, and one which may be easily made up in any numberof-designs or materials, either plain or with fanciful trimmings such aswill meet with the varying ideas'a-nd-needs of the trade.

Another object of the invention is to pro-- vide for a telephone coveror dress of the character set forth, and one which is capable of beingmanufactured at anextremely low cost,'and made up either singly, or insmall or large quantities, without seriously affect-- ing any markedvariation in such cost, which cost, however, will 'mainly depend uponand'be determined by the quality of the materials used in theconstruction thereof.

With the foregoing and other objects .in view, the invention resides inthe certain 1921. .Serial No. 488,319.

novel and useful construction and arrangement as will be hereinaftermore fully de scr bed, set forth'in the appended claims, and illustratedin the accompanying draw ing, in which zi- Figure 1 is a front elevationof a conventional form of desk or portable type of telephone, showing apreferred embodiment of the invention. as appliedthereto,

Figure '2 is a vertical section through the cover or dress, the samebeing taken .on the line 22 of Figure 1', i

Figure 3 is a side elevation,

Figure & is aside elevation of the .receiver portion of the cover ordress of the telephone, and,

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary Section through the telephonestandard covering portion of the coveror dress andvshowing the manner offastening the, adjacentedges thereof together. i

Referring to the drawing, the letter. a indicates the base ofa desk ,orportable form of telephone, .6 the standardflthereof, c the pivotconnecting the upperend oft-he standard Z) for the attaching thereto ofthe transmitter (Z, c the mouthpiece of the transmitter (Z, and f thereceiver hook and switching arm thereof, all of conventional form,construction and arrangement.

The present embodiment of the cover or dress for enclosing the telephonecomprises a transmitter covering or upper section substantially ofelbowcontour, a standard covering or intermediate section of cylindricalcontour, a base covering or lower section or flaring contour, andareceiver covering section substantially bell shaped. The upper portion10 Ofa fully flexible material or fabric, which is made with asufiicient fullness to be readily fittedoverthe. transmitter (Z to fullyenclose the same .andthe pivot connection 0 thereof, .an opening 11being provided in the upper end of the portion 10 whereby to haveinserted Itherethrough the mouthpiece e for its connection with thetransmitter d, the mouthpiece beingremoved fromthe latter previous tothe placing of the portion 10 in position. The-lower endof the po rtionl0 formed to provide an opening 12 to snugly fit around the extremeupper end of the "standard b and the edge of this opening 12 Tthe upperOpening 11, as at 1%, the latter may be rolled or otherwisefancifullyplaited or gathered as at 13, as is also the edge of beingp'rovided witha circletiof braiding, edging'or the like 15, to add to theattractiveness'ofthe construction. Secured to the inner wall of the,lower- ;opening' 1210f the 'upper portion 10 is'an intermediate portion16, which is arranged to encircle and enclose withinthe same thestandard 6 of the telephone, and thisportion l6may be of a similarmaterial or fabric as that of the upper portion 10, but is preferablymade of a heavier material or fabric, such as plush or the like.Securedto the lower end of the intermediate portionlfi is a. lowerportion orskirt 17 which is arranged to entirely cover the upper conicalsurface ofthebase a of the telephone, andithisportion of the cover ordress is gathered arms upper edge thereof'to admit of its properconnection with thG jlOWBI end of the inter mediate portion 16., and, atthe same time, gives sufficient fullness to the body of the skirt andthe lowerportion thereof to efiect the covering of the base a in anattractive of the cover or dress overthe upper end of the telephone,whenithe'se side edges will be fastened jtogether by means ofa series-offasteningsjlt), such the so-called invisiblei snapfastenings andjthelike, the in-Y termediate portion 16 ofthecover. or dressfitting thestandard ZJ'in snug manner, when fastened in position thereon, so as toafford an efiicient gripping surface, when the telephone is being used,-the receiver hook or switching "arm ,7 of-the telephone being allowedto project-from between the adjacent side edges at theupper end of theintermediate portion 16 substantially as.

shown in Figure 3.

' Supplemental to l telephone pro er, a cover portion 20 is provided forenclosing the receiver thereof,

. and the samejisof a formto snugly adapt itself to the configurationofthe same, substantially' as is shown in Figures 1 and 4, the lower endof theportion 20 being-open so as to'not in any way interfere with theuse the cover ordress'for the of the receiver, and the edge of thisopening may be gathered or pla'ited as at 21 in a manher to retain thisend of thefco'ver'in engagedposition. 7 The upper end of tliiscover 20is I gathered as at 22 to restrict the opening therein for its snugengagement over the:

end of the receiver whichQis attached to the conductors leading from"the telephone to the same; The upper portions of the seam 23connectingthe side edges of the material or fabric, from. which thesupplemental cover ordress is made, are left normally unconnected onefrom the other, whereby to i admit of the latter being drawnintoenclosmg position over the IBCBIV815fil1d these por' tions are thensecured together by meansrof an invisible fastening or fastenings 2 1,when;

the coverjor" dresswill be retained'in position untilit is desiredto'remove'the same for cleaning or change. T0 add tothe attr'activenessof the-supplemental cover or dress, a tassel or other similar ornament25 is attached-to and suspended from the up-' per end thereof bymeans ofa cord or the like 26. I

From the foregoing, itwilln be readily apr parent that the inventionprovides for an extremely novel form of'fcover or dress for telephonesand one that is'designed to meet a popular demand for the making ofhouse or private telephones ornamental-as Well as useful, such as hasheretofore been accomplished only by the enclosing of a telephone withinfancifulcabinets or coverings not attached directly to or carried by thesame, and

which have to be opened or otherwise entirely removed to allow fortheuse thereof.

It is well understood that, while a pre ferred embodiment of theinvention has been described and" illustrated herein in specifietermsand details of construction and arrangement, various changes in andmodifications of the same may be resorted to without departing from-thespirit of the invention, or the scope of the claim appended hereto.

Having thus fully"described the iiq ven tion, what is claimed, is

A cover comprismg an anglefshaped hol Y low upper section having thefree terminus of its horizontal le inturnedxto form a reduced lateralopening, the lower; terminus of the vertical leg of said sectionproviding V a vertically dlsposed open1ng,a reinforcing element securedto the inturned portion of the horizontal legofsaid sectionand surroundingsaid lateral opening, a vertically v disposed hollowcylindrical" intermediate.

section having its upper end extending into saidvertlcal openingandconnec-ted to said upper section, a flaring base section having itstopformed' with a vertical opening into which extends the lower end ofthe intermedlate section, the said intermediate section being secured atits lower end to the basesection, said upper section having its verticalleg split for a portion of its length, said intermediate and said basesections being split throughout, means for detachably connecting thesides of the split portion of the upper section in overlapping position,means for detachably connecting the intermediate section overlapped atthe split portion thereof, and means for detachably c0nnecting the baseoverlapped at the split por- 10 tion thereof.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature hereto.

MARY ROBERTS FOSTER.

